Almaty has most of the venues already in place to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and would spend only a fraction of what Russia invested in the Sochi Games, leaders of the bid from Kazakhstan said ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) Instead of grand talk about how the Olympics will break new ground by going to a majority-Muslim country for the first time, or by making their first visit to Central Asia ...

Almaty, Beijing present 2022 Winter Games bids to IOC. June 9, 2015 at 5:55 a.m. | Updated June 9, 2015 at 6:05 a.m.

There was disappointment in Almaty as it lost out to Beijing in the race to host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games by a mere four votes. A 500-strong crowd gathered in the mid-afternoon on July 31 in ...

Almaty has pleaded with International Olympic Committee members to not consider them a "risky" choice to host the 2022 Winter Games simply because the central Asian country of Kazakhstan is not ...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) Almaty has most of the venues already in place to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and would spend only a fraction of what Russia invested in the Sochi Games, leaders of the bid ...

Kazakhstan’s flag bearer, cross-country skier Yerdos Akhmadiyev leads his national delegation during the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics at the Fisht Olympic Stadium on February 7, 2014 ...

LONDON (AP) The Kazakh city of Almaty came out battling Tuesday in its contest with rival favorite Beijing in the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, portraying itself as the compact, affordable ...

Beijing won its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, beating out the Kazakhstan city of Almaty. The decision was announced in the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur, where the International ...

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will launch seven new destinations from Abu Dhabi between ...